Financial Margin

Financial Margin

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Financial Margin episodes

  • Financial Snapshot: How does your expenses score?
    The core Financial Snapshot has a total of six categories to evaluate. We reviewed what it would look like if you were to be consistent across all categories, but this scenario will not work for most of society. You may be further on in one category while lagging in another. In order to determine where you are at, looking at each category specifically based on your level of current proficiency will help reveal which needs the most focus. Moving from income to focusing on expenses, you’ll be able to pull this from your Plan to Spend or Budget as well. This will be the third step in the process. Finding out whether you spend more than you make will be one of the key components that will ensure that whether you are paid according to the market or not overextending yourself.
    7 min
  • Financial Snapshot: How does your income score? (Part 2)
    The core Financial Snapshot has a total of six categories to evaluate. We reviewed what it would look like if you were to be consistent across all categories, but this scenario will not work for most of society. You may be further on in one category while lagging in another. In order to determine where you are at, looking at each category specifically based on your level of current proficiency will help reveal which needs the most focus. Reviewing the income portion of your Plan to Spend or Budget will be the second step in the process. Finding out how your income measures up compared to the industry will then help you determine whether you are maximizing your value to the marketplace.
    9 min
  • Financial Snapshot: How does your income score? (Part 1)
    The core Financial Snapshot has a total of six categories to evaluate. We reviewed what it would look like if you were to be consistent across all categories, but this scenario will not work for most of society. You may be further on in one category while lagging in another. In order to determine where you are at, looking at each category specifically based on your level of current proficiency will help reveal which needs the most focus. Reviewing the income portion of your Plan to Spend or Budget will be the second step in the process. Finding out how your income measures up compared to the industry will then help you determine whether you are maximizing your value to the marketplace.
    9 min
  • Financial Snapshot: How does your budget score?
    The core Financial Snapshot has a total of six categories to evaluate. We reviewed what it would look like if you were to be consistent across all categories, but this scenario will not work for most of society. You may be further on in one category while lagging in another. In order to determine where you are at, looking at each category specifically based on your level of current proficiency will help reveal which needs the most focus. Getting a grip on the level that you operate by a Plan to Spend or budget will be the first step in the process.
    8 min
  • Financial Snapshot Scoring
    Using a matrix to get a snapshot allows you to measure your progress over time. This matrix is based on 6 columns from excellent to insufficient and 6 rows from a Plan to Spend on through retirement contributions. Being able to identify these components will enable you to expedite a solution to improving your finances.
    13 min
  • Financial Snapshot Overview
    A financial snapshot provides a brief indicator of what needs to be focused on in improving your personal finances. Being that personal finances are personal, being able to identify what uniquely impacts your situation is key. Being able to see where you are in relation to where you want to be will allow you to align this focus to the steps taking you toward your goals. Working to pinpoint issues and make the appropriate adjustments will ensure you don’t have to back peddle to repair them.
    10 min
  • Financial Health Check (Net Worth)
    Net worth is a financial indicator of your monetary standing at a given point in time. Looking at assets and liabilities to then derive your net worth will give you an indicator to track. Tracking your net worth will allow you to steadily monitor whether you are increasing the spread between what you own and what you owe.
    11 min
  • Financial Health Check (Assets & Liabilities)
    Most everyone has assets and liabilities that they need to consider within managing their personal finances. However, most have never spent the time to really look at what assets they have related to what liabilities they have. Looking at a list of both assets and offsetting liabilities will enable you to not only understand what you own vs. what you owe, but also have more of an awareness around your financial priorities when it comes to allocating your income to pay down and off debt.
    9 min
  • Give even when you don’t feel like it!
    Giving in a season where there is so much uncertainty may be the last thing on your mind however, just simply making the decision to give back in-spite of that will give you an ability to support a cause bigger than yourself. Enabling the focus to be redirected from you, to those who are in need. We have seemingly lost the ability to be constructively and intentionally involved in our neighborhoods and communities, but ensuring that you apply both time and resources from your Plan to Spend will ensure that you are making that positive impact that so many are opting-out from.
    12 min
  • Best: Budgeting with a zero-based budget approach
    The zero-based budgeting approach ensures that your money is fully-allocated out to all of the categories you utilize. This being considered the ‘best’ approach ensures that you are fully intentional with where your money goes, so that it is easier to identify waste and be able to make the changes necessary to ensure that your life energy is spent only on those purchases that add the most value to you.
    11 min

About Financial Margin

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Millennial Margin was formed to provide people with a unique approach to personal finance through the strategic building of Margin. Margin is the space outside the chaos and in a society that continues to push an agenda of a fast-paced, high stress, low satisfaction environment, Margin is ever-so-missing. So what's the solution? The solution is to focus on what adds the most value to you specifically, not wanting what others have just for the sake of wanting what others have. Instead finding contentment in simplifying life through a process I call audit, automate, augment. This allows you to see what you specifically want, where you are and where you want to be, backing that out into actionable steps. Those steps are then automated and scaled. Personal finance is well personal, so Margin focuses on building momentum through monthly themes broken down into weekly series and further into daily episodes focusing on you. Allowing for a positive compound effect to set in allowing you to truly gain control of your personal finances therefore, building intentional Margin into life. I am thankful to be a part of your journey and hope that you find this resource transformational. Now let's build some Margin!!